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Old 06-14-2019, 05:52 PM   #119
xoxoxoBruce
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Henry, time to expand our vocabulary.

Kakistocracy = A system of government that is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. It also was used by English author Thomas Love Peacock in 1829, but gained significant use in the first decades of the twenty-first century to criticize populist governments emerging in different democracies around the world.

Kleptocracy = A government of thieves who are stealing everything they can get their mitts on.

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